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Bobbins: 22 pairs + 2 gimps
Style: Bucks Point
Stitches:
half stitch and twist
twist
gimp (blue)
half stitch
cloth stitch and twist
cloth stitch
Details:
Bucks Point net (grey)
cloth footside (green)
rose ground (red)
Description:
Click on the links above to see how to do the different stitches and techniques.
This is an experiment, first in using rose ground in Bucks Point, and then trying out something for rose ground. Rose ground is traditional made with a Torchon or square grid. The Bucks Point grid does make it rather squashed!
The first, third and fifth group is traditional rose ground, with the crossovers donee as cloth stitch and twist. That makes square roses. The second one shows what happens is you do crossovers above and below the centre, for all roses. Normally, you do a single crossovers above the first row, then a single crossover between rows, then a single crossover after the last row, so the middle rows share crossovers. If you do cross-overs above and below each rose, then the ones in the middle get two crossovers on top of each other, which makes a litttle plait. It's not in fact very noticeable. The fourth one replaces the normal cloth stitch and twist of the crossovers with two cloth stitch and twists. This produces an interesting effect, in that the rose looks more rounded, rather than square. Interesting.... It would be more effective if I hadn't made a mistake, of course.
Close up of the lace, so you can see the working in more detail
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